using winrar to compress stems?

pk1 · #1 01-20-2009, 05:58 PM

Quick Question... can I use winRAR to compress my stems to save time when uploading them to your ftp? or does it affect the wavs quality or anything?

Cheers Jesse

Paul Kieran

Medway · #2 01-20-2009, 08:23 PM

Paul,

Hi good question. Rar is a lossless format so it wont affect the quality at all. Generally what you will see is that any silence in the files gets reduced to nothing. So if you had a stem with say just a few crashes the ending filesize would be very small, just a few megs sometimes.

But it's perfectly safe for audio.

Jesse

Medway · #3 02-09-2009, 11:33 AM

Have to give a big thumbs up to Winrar after comparing it to Winzip this week. Internet where I'm at currently is poor so had to find a way to make uploading a bit easier. Have found that Winrar can take a 70-80 meg file down to around 50 meg. Winzip was only reducing the size by about 4-5megs.. So for now Winrar would be preferred.